Left overs!!

I'm becoming famous for what I do with my left overs. See we always have left overs because other wise there might not be enough and then some one will end up still hungry and that wouldn't be good. So we keep making too much but then we end up with a refrigerator full of tupperware and plastic baggies full of left overs that you can't throw away because some one will eat them but nobody ever does and then eventually you buy food one day and realize it wont fit in the fridge because of all the left overs which don't look much like left overs anymore. Most of them have fuzzy green stuff on them or black spots. Some have just turned into an unrecognizable blob with juice surrounding it. I always keep the plastic containers from everything this way when I clean out the refrigerator and throw out the left overs I don't feel so bad about also throwing out the container because most of the time I'm afraid to open them because who knows what kind of spores will be released into my home causing me untold misery from my mold allergies. And my mother would kill me if she knew I threw away tupperware with out at least attempting to clean it and bleach it. Sorry Mom that stuff is just to scary so it goes in the garbage bag. I know more plastic. I have night mares about a growing pile of these plastic containers some where. Where ever they take the trash. And in the future when the land is unusable because it's full of plastic the blame falls on me. So any way......

I try to use up those left overs creatively so that my family will eat them and they wont pile up. So that leads me to my latest creation I call it Beef Pot Pie!!
We made stew and yum it was good but we had a ton left over. So I bought some crescent roles, the kind in a tube. Buttered these individual serving dishes that are made to go in the oven. Then lined them with the dough then filled them with the stew, not all the way I left some bubble room. Covered them with more dough. I poked a whole in the middle. Then covered that in aluminum foil and baked them on a cookie sheet on 350 degree oven for about an hour. Actually until I stuck a knife in the whole and it came out warm. I took off the foil and let the crust get brown. They were delicious and everyone liked it. I guess you could use canned stew if you don't have left overs. And you definitely have to remember to butter the outside of the dish where the crust stuck. But it was super easy and good.
We had more crescent role dough than we needed so I went ahead and cooked it up and ta da left over crescent rolls for breakfast this morning.

The new Daytona track.

Chris had Thursday off so he decided to go check out the new track at The Daytona International Speedway since it  was recently repaved. He had a really good time. It was free to anyone who wanted to see the drivers practicing for the big race week. We are hoping to go to the Bud Shoot Out. It's not for points or anything but we like to go and make a day of it. You actually get to watch two races in one because they have the ARCA race first. There is always some good band and lot's to do.



Chris tried to take pictures with his new android phone but didn't realize it was in sepia mode and all the pictures he took look like they are about 100 years old.

My immortals.

My grandmother always had these little porcelain figurines of people for me. They were so creepy I left them in a box. Until the other day when I decided to get rid of some of the junk in my closet. Seems like there were more of these creepy little people but I could be wrong.There were about six little people all together.   

My mud men



 Any way they are all just about three inches high. When I was little I would imagine they had tiny conversations and did stuff with each other. Any way I looked them all up on the computer to see if they had any value. Three of them I found out were Chinese mud men. They are actually made out of mud. The story behind them is really interesting. They represent immortals and each one is different and each one has a special power.



The one that's in the best condition.



 There are ten thousand immortals and they have little stories that teach different values. There eight main martial arts immortals. I was hoping mine would be one of the eight but after researching it I don't think they are. Only one of the mud men are in good condition the other two are chipped. The mud men  are supposed to be good luck and watch over who ever has them. It's nice to think I've had a little immortal watching over me all these years. I think I will be keeping all these little people and let them out of their box and into my china cabinet.